Comments on: i get it

By: Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 5/23/2008 - General Science

Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 5/23/2008 - General Science — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:42:58 +0000

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By: Kurt

Kurt — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:29:00 +0000

This one is just as good!

http://linkhead.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/get-rational-get-real/

By: Amigo… at 100nexos

Amigo… at 100nexos — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:01:15 +0000

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By: The Mutt

The Mutt — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:56:35 +0000

Rene Descartes was sitting in a restaurant.

The waiter asked, “Will you be having dessert?”

Descartes said, “I think not.”

And he vanished!

By: bir92

bir92 — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:24:18 +0000

come on people.

the square root of -1 is called an imaginary number, because the square root of a negative number is a mathematical impossibility (the square of any number is always positive).

so no one else can see the square root of -1 because it is imaginary.

just in case no one else got that.

By: defectiverobot

defectiverobot — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:18:45 +0000

Keeping in mind that I nearly failed college algebra…I don’t get it.

And no, I am not proud of my innumeracy.

By: Tim G

Tim G — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:13:04 +0000

I once wrote up a complex number class and used it to render Mandelbrot sets. I suppose I could use that class in a program on friendships.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:20:59 +0000

I want the 4 minutes back where I stared at the one frame you posted before reading down and seeing the link for the FULL COMIC.

By: rob

rob — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:08:47 +0000

i think it was funny. but then, i once did this to students in a physics lab i was teaching:

i was working out a problem on the board. i got to a step where i had

64/16=

i crossed out the 6 in the numerator and the 6 in the demoninator, which made it

4/1=

and then wrote 4 as the answer and went on.

a confused hush fell over the room before someone finally asked about my method of reducing the fraction.

By: Ray M

Ray M — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:06:16 +0000

@Doug Little: Anyone who understood it would have understood it with i instead.

Or a j, if you happen to be an electrical engineer. (At least, that was the case some – ahem – decades ago in the UK.)

By: ggremlin

ggremlin — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:01:41 +0000

It takes a real character to see an imaginary number. That will be eight bits please.

By: annonymous

annonymous — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:24:41 +0000

Jesus = lim(x->infinity)(c + xi)
It all makes sense now

By: ARP1234

ARP1234 — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:00:00 +0000

And mathematicians still wonder why they can’t get any
with jokes like this….

By: Doc

Doc — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:58:39 +0000

342 – 173

“You can’t take 3 from 2 – 2 is less than 3 – so you go to 4 in the ten’s place. Now that’s really 4 tens, so you make it 3 tens, regroup and you change the ten to 10 ones, and you add them to the 2 and get 12 and you take away 3, that’s 9.

“Now instead of 4 in the ten’s place you’ve got 3 (’cause you added 1 — that is to say 10 — to the 2) but you can’t take 7 from 3 so you look at the hundreds. From the 3 you then use 1, and you know why 4 + (-1) + 10 is 14 – 1 (’cause addition is commutative, right), and so you’ve got 13 tens, and you take away 7, and that leaves 5 … well … 6 actually, but it’s the thought that counts.

“Now go back to the hundred’s place. You’re left with 2 and you take away 1 from 2 and that leaves … now let’s not always see the same hands … 1. Everyone who got 1 can stay after to help clean the erasers.”

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:56:34 +0000

I must be math geeky, too, because I thought it was great

By: Shoeshine Boy

Shoeshine Boy — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:39:08 +0000

j get it too.

// EE nerd

By: Michael from Labrador

Michael from Labrador — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:30:45 +0000

AGHHHRRHH…!! IMAGINE that! Or is that…imaginary?

By: Sergei

Sergei — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:04:32 +0000

I didn’t get it at first, but I have an excuse – I didn’t think in English. I my language “imaginary” in “imaginary friend” and “imaginary number” are different words through both words are synonyms.

By: Ken B.

Ken B. — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:48:00 +0000

Yes, I get the original joke, the “10 types of people” joke, the “31 Oct == 25 Dec” joke, and so on.

And I know who Harvey is, but who’s Frank?

Now, if only I could remember this poem I heard years ago… It’s about making a cube with edges of length negative one, and putting it in a cube of edges of positive one.

By: Quiet Desperation

Quiet Desperation — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:09:46 +0000

Religion makes life complex. It adds an imaginary component.

By: Sohvan

Sohvan — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:56:25 +0000

Here’s a version with a bit better picture quality
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OmSbdvzbOzY

By: Sohvan

Sohvan — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:42:58 +0000

I got the imaginary friend part, but was also left wondering why 2, 3 and 8 specifically. I guess the numbers were incidental. Here’s another old but good one http://youtube.com/watch?v=OGh97__-uLA

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:31:47 +0000

Even as a mathtard I got it and love it because I got so messed up with that damn “i”.

It its imaginary then it can be anything I want it to be so there!

By: Tim G

Tim G — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:30:00 +0000

That was a good video, Matt. I have a question for everyone: What you know about math?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:51:08 +0000

Mikel, maybe your friend is just like many people like me who just… don’t get it, even if we see the full strip.

What’s that about the roots?